Take Me Out’s Wen admits to vice girl past as date Aaron is outed as escort

In another shocking Take Me Out revelation it has emerged that contestant Wen-Jing Mo worked as a prostitute – just days after it was revealed that her date from the ITV show Aaron Withers used to be a male escort.

Take Me Out host Paddy McGuinness paired up Wen-Jing Mo and Aaron Withers on the ITV show on Saturday (Picture: ITV)

The petite brunette – who yesterday insisted Aaron ‘manipulated’ her into bed after pairing up for a trip to the Isle of Fernando’s – signed up to a central London escort agency at the age of 18 in a desperate attempt to pay her bills.

She told the Daily Mirror: ‘Looking back now of course I regret doing it â but at the time it was a lifeline for me. I think a lot of other people in my position would do the same if it meant they could eat properly â I saw it as a matter of survival.

‘It was a huge relief just to be able to pay my bills again â like a massive weight had been lifted off my shoulders.’

Blaming her troubled upbringing, Wen added: ‘I was only 18 at the time â barely an adult â and Iâd spent most of my childhood living in a care home.

‘Iâd moved to London a year earlier but I was only earning Â£120-a-week as an Â­apprentice hairdresser with mounting bills to pay, when the salon went bust.’

After a friend told her she could make £1,000 a night as an escort, Wen was soon frequenting 5-star hotels and earning as much as £3,000 per week.

The 28-year-old kept her secret from friends and family and did not share it with ITV bosses in fear it would prevent her from finding romance on the show.

‘When I applied to go on Take Me Out I was genuinely looking for love. Iâve moved on with my life and the show seemed like a good fun way of perhaps meeting someone new,’ she explained.